• Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) international reserves stood at US$102.8 billion as at May 15, 2019 from US$103.4 billion at April 30, 2019 • Tekun Nasional has channelled business financing worth RM140 million since the beginning of this year until April 30, 2019 • Malaysia's labour productivity grows 2.4 per cent in Q1 2019 • Malaysia's CPI rose 0.2 per cent in April 2019 to 121.1 compared to 120.9 in the same month of the preceding year: Department of Statistics Malaysia

Malaysia’s KLCI recovered from a flat start to trade in the green at mid-session today, continuing to rally from the 12-month low it slipped to on July 6 this year.

At 12.30pm, the local stock exchange traded 4.73 points higher at 1,809.46 and between a high and low of 1,810.98 and 1,803.00 respectively.

The composite index opened lower at 1,803.54 (down 1.19 points) on China’s fresh round of retaliatory tariffs on US$16 billion worth of US goods which resulted in a lackluster performance across regional markets.

A total of 1.33 billion shares were traded for the day for RM1.01 billion while gainers edged out losers 421 to 349 and 387 counters were unchanged and 725 untraded.